Friday, December 30, 2005
Dated December 14, 2005 from ZANEIRANI.BLOGSPOT.COM:
I wouldn't call it a "Farting Free Zone" and apply the Zone to picking noses as well. Remembering the squallid and dirty environment of Tehran, I cannot imagine it being social fallacy to fart or pick your nose; the logic behind the idea that Iranians as a whole are clean-freaks or socially-uppity obsessives rather than progressive libertines seems a little over the edge. Most of the Iranians that I met were from the higher class in Iran, and I very rarely if ever saw one such person fart or burp in a social setting such as a dinner party but that is a SMALL MINORITY compared to the millions that are lower on the wealthy ladder of financial stability and have no luxury of setting social standards at dinner parties; they pick noses, fart, burp, empty their bladders, and spew all of that into an already polluted and dirty city of Tehran (I won't even go into the rural cities and areas) all in the eye of the public.
I think one shouldn't blame the people of Iran, wealthy or not, but rather blame the law. Without a law banning public littering and vagrancy, people will spit and hawk up their salivated bacteria as long as it keeps coming. The problem is to apply laws to keep the public from committing these crimes; spitting and cannibalism can be controlled, but it isn't up to the people to do that, it's up to the law.
Iran the Forbidden zone Iran, my country of birth... is where good manners
are the strict diet of the society. Farting, burping and picking the nose are
three main public concerns for us where as execution, stoning, murdering,
canibalism and torture are just part of the fun and joy of being Iranian!Welcome
to Iran, the Farting Forbidden Zone!
I wouldn't call it a "Farting Free Zone" and apply the Zone to picking noses as well. Remembering the squallid and dirty environment of Tehran, I cannot imagine it being social fallacy to fart or pick your nose; the logic behind the idea that Iranians as a whole are clean-freaks or socially-uppity obsessives rather than progressive libertines seems a little over the edge. Most of the Iranians that I met were from the higher class in Iran, and I very rarely if ever saw one such person fart or burp in a social setting such as a dinner party but that is a SMALL MINORITY compared to the millions that are lower on the wealthy ladder of financial stability and have no luxury of setting social standards at dinner parties; they pick noses, fart, burp, empty their bladders, and spew all of that into an already polluted and dirty city of Tehran (I won't even go into the rural cities and areas) all in the eye of the public.
I think one shouldn't blame the people of Iran, wealthy or not, but rather blame the law. Without a law banning public littering and vagrancy, people will spit and hawk up their salivated bacteria as long as it keeps coming. The problem is to apply laws to keep the public from committing these crimes; spitting and cannibalism can be controlled, but it isn't up to the people to do that, it's up to the law.
